Little women (1868) novel (Original Version)

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National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" . Retrieved August 22, 2012.

Margaret "Marmee" March – The girls' mother and head of household while her husband is away. She engages in charitable works and lovingly guides her girls' morals and their characters. She once confesses to Jo that her temper is as volatile as Jo's, but that she has learned to control it. [25] :130 Somewhat modeled after the author's own mother, she is the focus around which the girls' lives unfold as they grow. [25] :2 Marian de Forest adapted Little Women for the Broadway stage in 1912. [50] The 1919 London production made a star of Katharine Cornell, who played the role of Jo. [51]By June, Alcott had sent the first dozen chapters to Niles, and both agreed that they were dull. But Niles's niece, Lillie Almy, read them and said she enjoyed them. [9] :335–336 The completed manuscript was shown to several girls who agreed it was "splendid.” Alcott wrote, "they are the best critics, so I should definitely be satisfied." [8] :37 She wrote Little Women "in record time for money," [7] :196x2 but the book's immediate success surprised both her and her publisher. [10] Explanation of the novel's title [ edit ] The New York Times: Book Review Search Article". archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved November 28, 2020. Alberghese, Janice M.; Clark, Beverly Lyon, eds. (1999). "Little Women Leads Poll: Novel Rated Ahead of Bible for Influence on High School Pupils". Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Psychology Press. p.xliv. ISBN 978-0-8153-2049-4.

Another silent film adaptation was released in 1918 and directed by Harley Knoles. It starred Isabel Lamon as Meg, Dorothy Bernard as Jo, Lillian Hall as Beth, and Florence Flinn as Amy. [ citation needed] Susina, Jan (1999). "Men and Little Women Notes of a Resisting (Male) Reader". In Alberghene, Janice M.; Clark, Beverly Lyon (eds.). Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Psychology Press. pp.161–70. ISBN 978-0-8153-2049-4. Word comes that Mr. March is very ill with pneumonia and Marmee is called away to nurse him in Washington. Mr. Laurence offers to accompany her but she declines, knowing travel would be uncomfortable for the old man. Mr. Laurence instead sends John Brooke to do his business in Washington and help the Marches. While in Washington, Brooke confesses his love for Meg to her parents. They are pleased, but consider Meg too young to marry, so Brooke agrees to wait. Masse, Michelle (1999). "Songs to Aging Children: Alcott's March Trilogy". In Alberghene, Janice M.; Clark, Beverly Lyon (eds.). Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Psychology Press. p.338. ISBN 978-0-8153-2049-4. Boyd, Anne E. (2004). Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p.72. ISBN 0-8018-7875-6.

Swift, Lela (December 25, 1950), Little Women: Jo's Story, Studio One, Kent Smith, Mary Sinclair, John Baragrey , retrieved July 31, 2023 Gibson, Caitlin; Hesse, Monica (December 23, 2019). "We watched 15 straight hours of 'Little Women,' and things got weird". The Washington Post . Retrieved October 27, 2023. Gillian Armstrong directed a 1994 adaptation, starring Winona Ryder as Jo, Trini Alvarado as Meg, Samantha Mathis and Kirsten Dunst as Amy, and Claire Danes as Beth. The film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress for Ryder. [ citation needed]

a b Busch, Anita (April 27, 2017). "Lea Thompson To Star in New Feature Adaptation Of 'Little Women' ". Deadline.com . Retrieved June 23, 2018. In May 1868, Alcott wrote in her journal: "Niles, partner of Roberts, asked me to write a girl's book. I said I'd try." [8] :36 Alcott set her novel in an imaginary Orchard House modeled on her own residence of the same name, where she wrote the novel. [4] :xiii She later recalled that she did not think she could write a successful book for girls and did not enjoy writing it. [9] :335- "I plod away," she wrote in her diary, "although I don't enjoy this sort of things." [8] :37 Clark, Beverly Lyon (May 19, 2019). "From BabyLit to Lusty Little Women: Age, Race, and Sexuality in Recent Little Women Spinoffs". Women's Studies. 48 (4): 433–445. doi: 10.1080/00497878.2019.1614874. ISSN 0049-7878. S2CID 197738226. Robert March – Formerly wealthy, the father is portrayed as having helped a friend who could not repay a debt, resulting in his family's genteel poverty. A scholar and a minister, he serves as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War and is wounded in December 1862. After the war he becomes minister to a small congregation.

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Amy is the youngest sister and baby of the family; she’s 12 when the story begins. Interested in art, she is described as a "regular snow-maiden" with curly golden hair and blue eyes, "pale and slender" and "always carrying herself" like a proper young lady. She is the artist of the family. [22] Often coddled because she is the youngest, Amy can behave in a vain and self-centered way, though she does still love her family. [23] :5 She has the middle name Curtis, and is the only March sister to use her full name rather than a diminutive. [24] In the late 20th century, some scholars criticized the novel. Sarah Elbert, for instance, wrote that Little Women was the beginning of "a decline in the radical power of women's fiction", partly because women's fiction was being idealized with a "hearth and home" children's story. [7] :197 Women's literature historians and juvenile fiction historians have agreed that Little Women was the beginning of this "downward spiral". But Elbert says that Little Women did not "belittle women's fiction" and that Alcott stayed true to her "Romantic birthright". [7] :198–199